swell the ranks

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To add significant numbers of members (to a group).
    — All through the Empire the unskilled labourer is the one who feels the stress of hard times, when they do come, the most, and it is this class that goes very largely to swell the ranks of the unemployed.

词形变化

swells the ranks present,singular,third-person swelling the ranks participle,present swelled the ranks past swelled the ranks participle,past swollen the ranks participle,past
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